[Openicc] - CM Framework - Printer Driver - output intent

Robert Krawitz rlk at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jun 20 17:17:07 PDT 2011


On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:46:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 20 June 2011 17:56, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
>> Richard,
>> What do you think about Hal愀 proposed workflow for transporting the driver
>> settings as part of the CUPS printing stream ?
>
> I think if a PDF has an embedded output profile, then we should use
> that instead of querying colord.

OK, you've just convinced me that there's no way Gutenprint should be
interacting with colord.  Gutenprint knows nothing of the original
source document.  It receives pure raster data.  So there's no way it
would know whether to query colord or not.

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